Post by KC on Nov 2, 2006 20:31:27 GMT -5
A Mesa police officer was suspended Friday, three weeks after he was arrested by Chandler police on suspicion of assaulting his wife.
Officer Richard Rogers, a detective with the gang unit, was placed on paid suspension pending the outcome of the Chandler criminal misdemeanor case and a concurrent internal affairs probe by Mesa, Mesa police spokesman Sgt. Chuck Trapani said. Rogers initially had been placed on house assignment after the arrest.
On Oct. 3, Chandler police arrested Rogers on suspicion of assault and preventing the use of a telephone in an emergency, both misdemeanors, according to a police report obtained by the Mesa Republic. Rogers is scheduled for a pre-trial conference in Chandler Municipal Court on Monday.
Rogers and his wife, Christina, provided different versions of the domestic dispute at their Chandler home and both showed officers physical marks they claim they received during the incident.
Chandler police did not arrest Christina Rogers. She has no charges pending, said Maria Brewer, Chandler senior assistant city prosecutor.
Officers were called to the Rogers' Chandler home around 1:12 a.m. for a possible domestic disturbance.
Christina Rogers told officers she and her husband got into an argument and it escalated in the master bedroom with the door closed. She reported there was a history of domestic violence but it had never been reported to police, the report shows.
Rogers accused her husband of grabbing her while she was in the closet and pushing her face-first onto a chair and holding a pillow over her head. She told police he also was on top of her on the bed, holding her arms.
Christina showed the officer two marks above her left eye that appeared to be abrasions or rug burn. She also had a red mark on her upper back and light marks on both of her arms where she said he had grabbed her, according to the report.
She also told police her husband hung up the home phone when she tried calling 911, and took away her cell phone when she attempted to use it, according to the report.
Christina managed to call police a "short time" after the incident, she said.
Their sons, 2-year-old and 13-year old boys, and a friend of the teenage son, were at the home during the incident but weren't aware of what was going on, according to the report.
Richard told the officer the couple started arguing and it developed into "pushing and shoving," according to the report. He said Christina slapped him a couple of times and he tried pushing her away, the report shows. Richard told police he entered the walk-in closet but she told him to leave her alone. When asked when the verbal dispute became a physical one, Richard told police he didn't know.
Richard said his wife hit him with a picture frame and threw candles at him. The officer asked if anything in the house was broken and Richard said no.
The officer also asked if he had any marks on him from the incident and Richard replied not that he knew of or had seen. The officer wrote in the report he didn't see any marks on him.
In the police holding facility, Richard told the officer he now had some marks he wanted photographed. He had a small red mark on his right biceps, a small red mark on his right wrist, three small marks on his upper left back and a swollen, almost bruised, mark on his upper left chest, the report shows.
Richard told the officer he received the marks by deflecting blows and from the picture frame. He said he wasn't sure how he got the mark on his back and said he wasn't sure if the mark on his chest was from being pinched or his wife biting him.
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Officer Richard Rogers, a detective with the gang unit, was placed on paid suspension pending the outcome of the Chandler criminal misdemeanor case and a concurrent internal affairs probe by Mesa, Mesa police spokesman Sgt. Chuck Trapani said. Rogers initially had been placed on house assignment after the arrest.
On Oct. 3, Chandler police arrested Rogers on suspicion of assault and preventing the use of a telephone in an emergency, both misdemeanors, according to a police report obtained by the Mesa Republic. Rogers is scheduled for a pre-trial conference in Chandler Municipal Court on Monday.
Rogers and his wife, Christina, provided different versions of the domestic dispute at their Chandler home and both showed officers physical marks they claim they received during the incident.
Chandler police did not arrest Christina Rogers. She has no charges pending, said Maria Brewer, Chandler senior assistant city prosecutor.
Officers were called to the Rogers' Chandler home around 1:12 a.m. for a possible domestic disturbance.
Christina Rogers told officers she and her husband got into an argument and it escalated in the master bedroom with the door closed. She reported there was a history of domestic violence but it had never been reported to police, the report shows.
Rogers accused her husband of grabbing her while she was in the closet and pushing her face-first onto a chair and holding a pillow over her head. She told police he also was on top of her on the bed, holding her arms.
Christina showed the officer two marks above her left eye that appeared to be abrasions or rug burn. She also had a red mark on her upper back and light marks on both of her arms where she said he had grabbed her, according to the report.
She also told police her husband hung up the home phone when she tried calling 911, and took away her cell phone when she attempted to use it, according to the report.
Christina managed to call police a "short time" after the incident, she said.
Their sons, 2-year-old and 13-year old boys, and a friend of the teenage son, were at the home during the incident but weren't aware of what was going on, according to the report.
Richard told the officer the couple started arguing and it developed into "pushing and shoving," according to the report. He said Christina slapped him a couple of times and he tried pushing her away, the report shows. Richard told police he entered the walk-in closet but she told him to leave her alone. When asked when the verbal dispute became a physical one, Richard told police he didn't know.
Richard said his wife hit him with a picture frame and threw candles at him. The officer asked if anything in the house was broken and Richard said no.
The officer also asked if he had any marks on him from the incident and Richard replied not that he knew of or had seen. The officer wrote in the report he didn't see any marks on him.
In the police holding facility, Richard told the officer he now had some marks he wanted photographed. He had a small red mark on his right biceps, a small red mark on his right wrist, three small marks on his upper left back and a swollen, almost bruised, mark on his upper left chest, the report shows.
Richard told the officer he received the marks by deflecting blows and from the picture frame. He said he wasn't sure how he got the mark on his back and said he wasn't sure if the mark on his chest was from being pinched or his wife biting him.
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